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...There is one grave danger which will go along with us until the end. That danger is the undue prolongation of the war. It is in the dragging out of war at enormous expense till the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must now reside. We must destroy this hope as we have destroyed so many others...
Just eight years after he split American labor wide open by founding the revolutionary C.I.O., Lewis asked that he and his 600,000 miners be taken back into the older and more conservative American Federation of Labor. The news came as a mighty shock to millions : What was John Lewis up to now? The move was the result of secret negotiations, mainly between Lewis and big Bill Hutcheson, head of the Carpenters' Union, who once called Lewis a big bastard and was forthwith knocked flat. And the announcement came, fittingly enough, from the lips of pious-faced Bill Green...
...grads were very happy. Basketball season was a little weird, with a mediocre quintet doing all sorts of amazing things, such as beating Penn and Princeton, and losing to Yale. The boys proved very good guests wherever they went, simply refusing to win on an opponent's court. They split two games with Yale, so the old grads were pretty lukewarm about it all. Hal Ulen had a good swimming team until Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen were graduated, and even after that things weren't bad. The boys upset Dartmouth one March afternoon, and Yale, in winning its usual...
...Tunis, Anderson's army paused to fight very few engagements with the enemy but instead pushed out toward Cap Bon in many divergent columns. In principle they infiltrated the enemy much as the Japs infiltrated the British in Malaya and Burma. German and Italian units were badly split and their communications were cut. Liaison was impossible. Some corps and division headquarters surrendered before their soldiers had the order to cease fire...
Harvard's diamond forces split a pair of ball games over the weekend as they topped a pick-up Tufts aggregation Saturday after dropping a decision to Rabbit Maranville's Bethlehem-Hingham Steel Co. team the day before...